Been re-reading The Canada Chronicles by Matthew Jackson recently, which is an account of some guy’s hitchhiking adventures over a four year period in the 90s in my country. Fun read, made me wonder if anyone here as any stories they want to share (will also accept shout outs for someone else’s cool hitchhiking story).
I’ve hitchhiked a few times. Mainly in the mountains when I missed a last (or only) bus of the day after a hike. We also try to pick up hitchhikers whenever we see them. Last time it was a paraglider who had landed in a random field and needed a ride back to town. So far my experience (as a young woman) has been good and the scariest experience was when a driver went about 20 kph above the 80kph speed limit on a bendy mountain road. I now hike with my (medium size) dog and find it’s a lot harder to hitchhike.